Yes, this flourless chocolate mousse from Monsieur Truffe at Prahran Market is very bad news for the weak-willed.
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September 2006
The cheese that should have been in my shopping bag Two weeks ago this cheese should have been in my shopping bag. I saw it being sliced at a well known and expensive deli stall in Prahran Market. I paid near $60 for it and a dozen other items. The woman who serves me comes [...]
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A very nice pie I thought I’d been eating to many meat pies. That’s the working class variety. You know, the ones made with the gunk molested out of cow remains shortly after it’s become cat food. That’s the run of the mill kind of pie that licensed bandits sell at football grounds across Australia. [...]
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While the wild wind and rain hammered St Kilda on Sunday, once again Neil over at Food for Thought and I had one of those weird mind melds where we end up blogging pretty much the same things. This day I was mooching around the famous cake shops of St Kilda. So was he. In [...]
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Ingredients 1 sheet frozen puff pastry A few marinated olives Two ripe tomatoes Fetta cheese (Greek is still the best) Olive oil and seasoning 1 egg yolk Today I shan’t be rolling out puff pastry. Life is too short and the frozen stuff, I hate to say, is pretty good. It makes this recipe cheap, [...]
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Check out what Matt from Abstract Gourmet had to say about spammer chef Benjamin Christie, the guys at Food Blog S’cool (FBS) and what Sam from Becks & Posh said in May 2005. We have a repeat offender.
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It all starts with what seem like friendly emails. A friendly invite to link to or visit this or that post. But if you click through on “celebrity” chef Benjamin Christie’s links it soon becomes clear his matey correspondence is a cynical attempt at marketing. And who is Australia “celebrity” chef Benjamin Christie anyway? As [...]
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Wet your knickers. Yesterday (Sunday) the Jamie Oliver road show arrived in Sydney with an entourage of about 20 so-called mates. He’s here for the launch of Fifteen Melbourne, which opens for trade Thursday 20th September. It opens for bookings on the 13th or 14th (when the reality TV show first airs on Channel 10) [...]
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Busy, busy, busy. What I need is a quick and easy recipe with both veggies and meat. One of my favourites is Gajar ka salad, a Gujerati carrot salad from my very stained and food stippled copy of Madjur Jaffrey’s Indian Cookery. It is an excellent candidate for Weekend Herb Blogging over at Kalyn’s Kitchen. [...]
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